Members' Articles

Over recent years, our members have contributed a host of articles to our regular monthly newsletters. These articles have covered a wide range of topics, both personal and professional, around their work and travel. They are gathered here under this heading, in reverse chronological order.

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“The Wine Must Get Through”
...or how we learnt to drive in the HGV lane!
A brilliant experience volunteering as a consultant in Rwanda has Freeman Chris Sutton keen to volunteer for other consulting opportunities in the developing world....
Is it possible that while Chris was encircled by gorillas on one side of a mountain, Father of the Livery Ca
"THE FORE" – funding for social entrepreneurs....
How the UK’s “most powerful man you’ve never heard of”, a former captain of the All Blacks, a CEO of Jane…
The Pearl of Africa....
Awakening to the knowledge of where the "mountain gorillas" of Uganda actually reside, and equipped with the
Pro Bono Reflections....
Liveryman Steve Cant - on his first months as Chair of the Pro Bono Committee, 2017....
 
Taiwan Notes....
...inTaiwan for Chinese New Year ....
Drumming up support for the WCoMC Charitable Fund....
Liveryman Simon Chapman showcases the newly-trained marching drummers, using the kit the Company funded....
Crossrail Tunnel 2017: Update on Europe's largest infrastructure project ....
It's estimated that there's about 17,000 tonnes of bombs that were dropped on London in WWII, and the rule of…
Despite heroic attempts to end Liveries, The City is a living piece of history, from which many benefits flow....
The Minutes of the Coopers' Company, in 1704, blamed "the clamorous confusion and great disorder at its…